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21 Verulam Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Dg

5/2023/2415Prior Approval - Office to residentialApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 January 2024

Council decision: COU Prior approval not required conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior Approval - Change of use from Class E (commercial) to Class C3 (residential) to one residential dwelling

Received
29 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Verulam
  1. Received29 Nov
  2. Validated29 Nov
  3. Consult.6 Jan
  4. Target6 Jan
  5. Decided19 Jan

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 21 Verulam Road St Albans Hertfordshire Al3 4Dg. St Albans has handled 912 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than St Albans's typical decision time. The site is in the St Albans conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 149 applications across Verulam. We hold 2,256 applications in total for the AL3 postcode area.

71% of outline applications at St Albans City and District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
AL3 4DG
Application type
Prior Approval - Office to residential
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Central St Albans

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 November 2023
Consultation expiry
6 January 2024
Consultation end
6 January 2024
Target decision date
6 January 2024
Application expires
23 January 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: St Albans - Verulam Road
  • Listed building: Grade II: 25, Verulam RoadOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Verulam and Fishpool Street
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: St Albans

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